1. Behold the hands stretched out for aid,
Darkened by sin and sore dismayed;
Oh, will you to their rescue go,
Lost wanderers down to endless woe?

Refrain

We’ll girdle the globe with salvation,
With holiness unto the Lord;
And light shall illumine each nation,
The light from the lamp of His Word.

2. In heathen lands they watch and wait,
And sigh for help which comes so late,
And grope in sin and nature’s night,
Forever vainly seeking light.

3. Oh, flash the tidings! Shout the sound,
In darkest lands the world around,
Till all the earth from pole to pole,
Shall full salvation echoes roll.

4. The watch fires kindle far and near,
In ev’ry land let them appear,
Till burning lines of Gospel fire,
Shall gird the world and mount up higher.

Vivian Adelbert Dake died this date, 1/5/1892 on a ship (doing a miss­ion­a­ry trip) near Sier­ra Le­one,Africa, and was buried at sea. Dake was the found­er of the Pent­a­cost Bands (not a tongues group) that evan­gel­ized Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Ohio. He had been born 2/9/1854, Or­e­gon, Ogle County, Illinois. Dake penned “We’ll Girdle the Globe,” in 1891.